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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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• I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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• Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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• Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

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• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

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• In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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• God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

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• God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

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• For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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• And every human being is precious.

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• The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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• It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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• I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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• But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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• Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

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• As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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• If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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Desmond Tutu (80)

Birth:	7th October, 1931
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Activist, Bishop

About

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa. He is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, the imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, homophobia and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu travelled to King's College London, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology.

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